Simon De Beauvoir, for quite some time, was hesitant to write a book about women, because it is an irritating subject that has been a major topic of discussion for years. Half a century ago, she wrote the “Second Sex”, and here we are all these years later, and still, women are not free and equal. She famously asserts in her book that woman is other; woman is not man, and that man has historically found what it means to be human. Women are faced to live with the reality of gender oppression. Women have to assert their freedom, and climb social ladders, as opposed to men who have it much simpler. De Beauvoir believed that people are nothing but their actions - that humans are defined by the choices they make. In the case of women, their
